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Collections from around the world

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FULL STEAM AHEAD ANNUAL REGION 7 ARTS AND
EDUCATION SUMMIT, MARCH 6, 2015
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Museums and Kids
Trips to an art museum contribute to the
development of studentschildren who visit a
museum, even a few times have stronger critical
thinking skills, exhibited increased historical
empathy, display high levels of tolerance, and
have a greater taste for consuming art and
culture. Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida and Daniel
H. Bowen, Value of Field Trips Taking Students
to an Art Museum Improves Critical Thinking and
More, Education Next Winter 2014, pages 78-86.
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Visual Literacy
Visual literacy is a set of abilities that
enables an individual to effectively find,
interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and
visual media. Visual literacy skills equip a
learner to understand and analyze the contextual,
cultural, ethical, aesthetic, intellectual, and
technical components involved in the production
and use of visual materials. A visually literate
individual is both a critical consumer of visual
media and a competent contributor to a body of
shared knowledge and culture. Association of
College and Research Libraries, ACRL Visual
Literacy Competency Standards for Higher
Education, American Library Association October
2011.
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Museum Collections
A defining feature of a museum is a permanent
collection of unique objects. This collection is
used to curate and design exhibitions, build
educational and community outreach programs, and
be primary source material for academic research.
Collections are not brought together in haphazard
ways but are built through careful and
intentional selection ensuring that the included
objects supports the museums mission and are of
a certain quality.
Virtual visitors to museum websites already
out-number physical (on-site) visitors, and many
of these are engaged in dedicated learning. Roy
Hawkey, Kings College London
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Digital Collections
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Teaching with Works of Art

• Ask open ended questions.
• Visual Thinking Strategies
• - What is going on in this picture?
• - What do you see that makes you
  say that?
• - What more do you see?
• Layer Information
• Incorporate Activities
• Make Connections
• Reflection

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Curating
Today, curating as a profession means at least
four things. It means to preserve, in the sense
of safeguarding the heritage of art. It means to
be the selector of new work. It means to connect
to art history. And it means displaying or
arranging the work. But it's more than that.
Before 1800, few people went to exhibitions. Now
hundreds of millions of people visit them every
year. It's a mass medium and a ritual. The
curator sets it up so that it becomes an
extraordinary experience and not just
illustrations or spatialised books. Hans Ulrich
Obrist, Curator The Art of Curation, The
Guardian, March 23, 2014
_at_Large Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz September 27, 2014
April 26, 2015 at Alcatraz Island For-Site
Foundation, National Park Service and the Gold
Gate Parks Conservancy
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Interactive Features
Tang Teaching Museum Skidmore College Classless
Society explores class in America today from
various social and economic perspectives, through
contemporary art, popular culture, music, film,
literature, and advertising.
Museum of Modern Art Interactives This
interactive explores the Thomas Walther
Collection of photographs (341 images taken in
the 1920s and 30s by 150 artists) and features
four interactive visualization models to reveal
the intersections and relationships among the
photographers, the artists, and the materials and
techniques they used in ever-changing geographic
locations and across sliding spans of year.
O B J E C T P H O T O
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Lesson Plans
ArtNC Works of art, lesson plans (broken down by
grade level, subject area content, skill),
concept maps, video demonstrations, and
professional development content for teachers.
MoMA Learning Digital hub designed to give
educators the tools they need to help their
students engage with art. Dynamic and content
rich interface and downloadable PowerPoints and
worksheets.
Smithsonian Education Lesson plans related to the
Smithsonians many collections.
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Student Centered Interactives
RijksStudio Students and adults can created
their own masterpieces (t-shirts, phone cases,
postcards, etc.) using images from Rijksmuseums
extensive collection. Good artists copy, great
artists steal Pablo Picasso
TATE KIDS Students can create their own gallery,
play games, watch videos, create their own
artwork.
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Sources
Bowen, Green and Kisida. (2014) Learning to Think
Critically A Visual Art Experiment. Educational
Researcher, Vol. 43, No. 1 (pp.37-44) Bowen,
Green and Kisida. (2014) Value of Field Trips.
Education Next, Winter 2014 (pp. 78-86) DeSantis
and Housen. (2007) Aesthetic Development and
Creative and Critical Thinking Skills Study.
Visual Understanding in English. Hattwig,
Bussert, Medaille and Burgess. (2012) Visual
Literacy Standards in Higher Education New
Opportunities for Libraries and Student Learning.
Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 13, No. 1 (pp.
61-89) Housen. (2001) Aesthetic Thought,
Critical Thinking and Transfer. Arts and Learning
Research Journal, Vol. 18, No.1 (pp.
99-132) Obrist. (2014) The Art of Curation. The
Guardian.
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Resources
Art Institute Chicago (S, C, LP, V) ArtNC (LP,
links to North Carolinas Museum of Arts
Collection) The British Museum (S, LP, V) Crystal
Bridges Museum of American Art Getty (S,
LP) The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation (S,
LP, V) Harvard Art Museums (S, C) Library of
Congress (S, LP, V) Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (S, C) Louvre (S, I find under Learning
About Art ) Metropolitan Museum of Art
www.metmuseum.org/collection (S, C, LP) Museo
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (S,
V) Museum of Modern Art (S. C. LP, I, V) Museum
of Modern Art Interactives Museum of Modern Art
Learning Rijkmuseum (S, C) Seattle Art Museum
(S) Smithsonian (S, C, LP) Smithsonian Education
Tang Teaching Museum Skidmore College Tate (S,
C, LP) S easy to search, C possible to
create personal collection, LP lesson
plans/resources, I interactives, V
videos/podcasts Visual Understanding in
Education (VTS) Museums and the Web (check out
their Best of the Web)